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Deaths all day long up and down hill in the hot sun, without shoes,
pounds on their heads; and if their little stock sometimes fails
heavy enough. Doubtless the habit of carrying everything in this
erectness of the population.... I have seen a grand-piano
very seldom steadied with the hand after having been once placed
black.html">black, quick, piercing eyes flash into every window and door-way
uttered in a sonorous, far-reaching high key, interblend and
certainly weighs as much as herself.... _"Ça qui lè bel.html">bel avocat?,"_
_"Ça qui lè escargot?"_ Call her, if you like snails.... _"Ca qui lè
fill a tea-cup;--one of the most delicate of Martinique
aubè?" (Who wants ducks, charcoal, or pretty little loaves
cake in the form of a tiny sugar-loaf, wrapped in a piece of
créole?"_ She deals in creole roots and herbs, and all the
_matriquin, feuill-corossol, balai-doux, manioc-chapelle, Marie-
carré, zhèbe-codeinne, zhèbe-à-femme, zhèbe-à-châtte, canne-
you never saw or heard of before.... _"Ça qui lè dicaments?"_
acheté canari-à dans lanmain moin.html">moin, moin ké crazé y."_ The vender
buy it she will break it!
_"Hé! zenfants-la!--en deho'!"_ Run out to meet her, little
enho', gens pa' enbas, gens di galtas, moin ni bel gououôs
good folks who dwell in the attics,--know that she has very big
yonne?"_--those are "akras,"--flat yellow-brown cakes, made of
fried in butter.... And then comes the pastry-seller, black as
capped like a French cook, and chanting half in French, half in
Qui té ka veillé pou' gagner son existence,
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